Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though security regulations forced Dutch Kindelberger to keep mum, the industry had some plausible guesses on what new jobs had been handed to him. North American is already building the AJ-1, the Navy's first carrier-based bomber capable of carrying the atomic bomb. Its production will likely be stepped up at Columbus. There was also a strong hint that North American will begin production of McDonnell Aircraft's carrier-based Banshee jet fighter (TIME...
...Abner, probably has a sharper eye for slobs, monsters, hags and fiends than anyone alive. This means that his eye is very sharp indeed, for the modern slob seldom slobbers and in the 20th Century even monsters are apt to use both Vitalis and Zip, grease themselves liberally with Mum or Dew, and consult a dentist twice a year. Capp is not fooled. At times, in fact, he seems to suspect that the world is peopled exclusively by bloated big businessmen, brainless editors, venal politicians, sadistic cops, cruel stepmothers and shambling, leaping legions of lesser knaves, oafs and fools...
...pundits were mum, so was Senhor Vargas. His only campaign promise had been to turn out the ins. The gaúchos of his southern frontier district have a saying: "He can wait like an Indian and plan like a Jesuit." This week Vargas issued no victory cries, no bright new programs. He didn't say a single word. He remained at his bare ranch house at Itu, occasionally went out to putter in his garden...
What was the Old Mahatma up to? One rumor that swiftly went the rounds (though Rickey kept mum): he was bound for Pittsburgh, to start rebuilding that dismal, last-place disappointment. Rickey took his phone off the hook to avoid questions. A "source," speaking for him as "spokesmen" sometimes speak for U.S. Presidents, announced that, at 69, Rickey wanted to sell out "in order to get a little security in this troubled world...
...last year. As a result, the Canadian dollar, selling for 90? of the U.S. dollar, would be placed on a par with it; the value of the pound would be increased to around $3 from the current $2.80. The British government denied the rumor; the Canadians were mum...